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El Gordo Spanish Sweepstake Lottery Scam

Permanent Link posted December 20th, 2007

One can imagine our sheer delight this morning when my wife received a letter (to her maiden name), from Spain (Malaga Postmark) informing her she had won 815,810.00 Euro in a Spanish lottery. Fortunately my wife and I are not complete morons and saw this for the scam it was.

Here is the letter.

For those not savvy with these types of scam. They promise you the winnings if only you would cover the transfer fee, ranging from £500 to £5000, wired to one of their accounts and they will release the funds. Sounds stupid of course, but so many people fall for this. I told my mother jokingly and she was adamant I follow it up.

Of course the funds are never released and your ‘transfer fee’ is now funding further scams to people around the world.

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